Sports and Activities
Forest has a strong sporting heritage across all three schools. The School benefits from a newly created sports and leisure complex, a large sports field, hard tennis and netball courts and two swimming pools. Pupils compete between houses and our school teams compete against others.
Forest has a long-standing national reputation in both (boys') football and cricket and there are fixtures against other powerful footballing and cricketing schools. Forest achieves strong representation at county and national level. Hockey is also played to a high standard. Strong fixture lists have been developed in athletics and cross-country running. Other sports such as golf, badminton, fencing and tae-kwon-do all enjoy strong support.
Twice a week, pupils have an afternoon of 'Activities'. These are double and triple periods devoted to an activity chosen by the pupil once per term. Activities include sporting, artistic, charitable, academic and other cultural pursuits and are intended to allow all pupils to pursue interests outside the school curriculum. Sports teams have practice during activities, while the remainder of the school may choose from many options including CCF, video techniques, community service, The Duke of Edinburgh's Award, karate, photography, stage lighting, fencing, swimming, football, golf, taekwondo, Ancient Greek, public speaking and debating, Film Club and MFL Film Club, early music, and chess club.
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